Le mercredi 07 juin 2006 à 12:18 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit :
> Jeremy Hankins writes ("Non-DD's in debian-legal"):
> > I'm not sure I understand this part, though. Do you think that folks
> > like myself, who are not DD's, should not participate in the discussions
> > on d-l?
>
> Actually, I think they should not participate, in general.[snip] > Part of the problem here is that the selection process for DD's has > become discredited, because (a) many good and useful people making > significant technical contributions are still stuck outside the fence > and also (b) many less good and less useful people are on the inside > making a mess. I don't have an easy answer to this but it's something > we should all be thinking about. And maybe *you* should think about it before saying non-DD contributions are not welcome. Believe me, if they stopped participating tomorrow, large key parts of the development would be completely stuck, and that includes advice on licenses. > But dismantling the or undermining the tie between political > decisionmaking in Debian to formal membership is not the answer. I don't see much difference between contributing to debian-legal and contributing to packaging. The contributors to the mailing list are not the ones making the decision. The ones making the decision are the ftp-masters and the release managers, using *advice* from the list. Do you need to be a DD to spot a problem with a license? No. Fortunately, most DDs can, unlike you, accept that this is a real problem even if the person spotting it is not a Chosen One. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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